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1Health and healthfulness: Galen on prevention, gymnastics, and the art of medicineMetascience 1-3. forthcoming.
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9Vassallo, Christian._ _ _The Presocratics at Herculaneum: A Study of Early Greek Philosophy in the Epicurean Tradition._ _ _Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter 2021, xxi + 763 pp. (review)Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 106 (2): 370-374. 2024.
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11Livio Rossetti, Verso la filosofia: nuove prospettive su Parmenide, Zenone e Melisso (review)Philosophie Antique 22. 2022.In this the eighth volume of the Eleatica series, the mastermind behind this wonderful tradition of conferences and subsequent publications, Livio Rossetti, provides a concise introduction to his extensive work over many years on Parmenides and the Eleatic tradition. Following in the model of previous contributions to the series, we find a detailed introduction by the volume’s editors, Rossetti’s three lectures on our three Eleatics, ten thoughtful responses by the conference participants, an...
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13Mathilde Brémond, Lectures de Mélissos. Édition, traduction et interprétation des témoignages sur Mélissos de Samos (review)Philosophie Antique 19 172-174. 2019.Melissus of Samos has long been due an uptick in scholarly attention. His plainly worded, workmanlike Ionic prose offers a welcome contrast to Parmenides’ Epic—and often deeply obscure—hexameters. Melissus, too, seems to have come to be something of a representative for Eleatic thought in antiquity and makes intriguing appearances in Plato’s Theaetetus and, particularly, in Aristotle’s dialectical accounts of his predecessors that have never quite received satisfactory treatment. Happily, th...
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511Posidonius’ Two Systems: Animals and Emotions in Middle StoicismArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. forthcoming.This paper attempts to reconstruct the views of the Stoic Posidonius on the emotions, especially as presented by Galen’s On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato. This is a well-studied area, and many views have been developed over the last few decades. It is also significant that the reliability of Galen’s account is openly at issue. Yet it is not clear that the interpretative possibilities have been fully demarcated. Here I develop Galen’s claim that Posidonius accepted a persistent, non-rati…Read more
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20Establishing the Logos of Melissus: A Note on Chapter 1, Hippocrates’ De natura hominisArchai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 31. 2021.The earliest mention of Melissus of Samos by name is found in the first chapter of the Hippocratic De natura hominis. In the following note, I attempt to examine what is meant by the reference Melissus’ ‘logos’ in this work and suggest, against previous accounts, including Galen’s, that it has little to do with his commitment to monism. Rather Melissus’ logos is better understood as his referring to his strategy for demonstrating such a conclusion, especially his use of a supplemental argument i…Read more
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35Musonius Rufus, Cleanthes, and the Stoic Community at RomeElenchos: Rivista di Studi Sul Pensiero Antico 41 (1): 71-104. 2020.Surprisingly little attention has been devoted to Musonius Rufus, a noted teacher and philosopher in first–century CE Rome, despite ample evidence for his impact in the period. This paper attempts to situate Musonius in relation to his philosophical predecessors in order to clarify both the contemporary status of the Stoic tradition and the value of engaging with the central figures of that school’s history. I make the case for seeing Cleanthes as a particularly prominent predecessor for Musoniu…Read more
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31Disjunctions and Natural Philosophy in Marcus AureliusClassical Quarterly 69 (2): 858-879. 2019.In hisMeditations, Marcus Aurelius repeatedly presents a disjunction between two conceptions of the natural world. Either the universe is ruled by providence or there are atoms. At 4.3, we find perhaps its most succinct statement: ἀνανεωσάμενος τὸ διεζευγμένον τό⋅ ἤτοι πρόνοια ἢ ἄτομοι (recall the disjunction: either providence or atoms). The formulation of the disjunction differs; at 7.32, being composed of atoms is contrasted with a stronger sort of unity (ἕνωσις) that may survive death. In 10…Read more
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19Melissus and Eleatic MonismCambridge University Press. 2018.In the fifth century BCE, Melissus of Samos developed wildly counterintuitive claims against plurality, change, and the reliability of the senses. This book provides a reconstruction of the preserved textual evidence for his philosophy, along with an interpretation of the form and content of each of his arguments. A close examination of his thought reveals an extraordinary clarity and unity in his method and gives us a unique perspective on how philosophy developed in the fifth century, and how …Read more
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25Jaap Mansfeld et al., Eleatica 2012: Melissus between Miletus and Elea. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2016. 201 pp (review)Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 99 (3): 346-349. 2017.Name der Zeitschrift: Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie Jahrgang: 99 Heft: 3 Seiten: 346-349.
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